Welcome to Calm by Nature, a unique learning journey and community designed to help you enjoy a life of vibrant, everyday calm, in collaboration with the nature right outside your door—all in just 6 weeks.
Why Choose Calm by Nature?
Some people say that nature is part calm and part turbulent tempest.
Yin Yang. Just like us.
But our experience is that, when thriving, nature is primarily peaceful – with rare moments of pressure release. Just like us.
When we pay attention, the Earth offers us a clear mirror for what our best lives can look like. She reminds us that, like her, when we thrive, we are calm by nature.
Not sleepy calm, nor boring calm, nor out-of-touch-tone-deaf calm.
Calm in the sense that we can relax enough to let the unbridled flow of life run through us. The kind of calm that is at the core of clarity, courage, community, coherence and so much more that we desire.
Combining teachings from the Himalayan traditions, Indigenous wisdom, and creative expression, we offer a nature-centered approach to awakening your inherent peace; which is fully customizable to your interests and aspirations.
With a 98% success rate, we guarantee results in 6 weeks or less.
Here’s How it Works
To get started, you'll receive:
❀ 25 Minutes of Daily Guided Practice: Simple, effective and enjoyable exercises to deepen your intentional, personal relationship with the Earth. Inspired by the hummingbird, we'll awaken our calm, by taking a soulful sip of the nature around us each day, five days per week.
We have curated a rich collection of our favorite practices for you, which include meditation, movement, journaling, poetry, sketching storytelling, music, ritual and more. The idea is that these will provide a framework for you to draw inspiration from to create your own personal repertoire.
❀ Weekly Live Sharing Circles: Receive personal support and build community with your cohort.
Our Proven Process:
MODULE 1: Inviting Nature into Our Inner Circle
OBSTACLE: Excluding nature from the intimacy of our daily life - even if we spend a lot of time outdoors.
OUTCOME: Discover a well of peace through intentional reconciliation with nature, without disrupting your current routine.
MODULE 2: Grounding in Our Life-Enriching Lineage
OBSTACLE: Having a relationship with ancestry or lineage that is non-existent, fleeting or heavy.
OUTCOME: Develop a relationship with your lineage that is enriching and encouraging.
MODULE 3: Clearing the Turbulence
OBSTACLE: Murkiness of life causing confusion and fear.
OUTCOME: Building on the reconciliation and grounding that you have established, you can collaborate with nature to create a clear, tranquil inner environment that enhances relaxation and perspective, and brings about fearless courage.
MODULE 4: Dissolving Loneliness
OBSTACLE: Crisis of loneliness.
OUTCOME: Restore profound kinship with life, reclaiming an authentic experience of belonging.
MODULE 5: Responding Consciously
OBSTACLE: Energy-draining conflicts and co-dependencies.
OUTCOME: Achieve ease in responding to situations by centering your spacious, grounded, peaceful presence.
MODULE 6: Experiencing the Earth’s Love
OBSTACLE: One-sided love for the Earth.
OUTCOME: Transform your relationship into a sacred bond, deeply experiencing the Earth’s reciprocal love.
What makes Calm by Nature Unique?
Our method weaves together three main influences:
❀ HIMALAYAN TRADITION: Receive a supportive foundation of compassion, mindfulness, and interbeing, based on 20+ years of study with the Dalai Lama and nature retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh.
❀ INDIGENOUS WISDOM: Ground your journey in teachings from ancestral lands, informed by lifelong learning from elders that bring nature’s deepest wisdom to your practice.
❀ CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Discover unique ways to express your calm and peace through thoughts, words, and actions, assisted by your guide’s experience as an award-winning filmmaker and creator.
Transformations you can expect:
❀ Deep Inner Peace: Harmonize with nature and cultivate a lasting calm.
❀ Empowerment: Transition from an Earth Lover into an Earth Collaborator.
❀ Enhanced Living: Infuse every part of your life with tranquility, making you a beacon of peace for your community and our beloved Earth.
The Guarantee
Achieve deep calm and peace within three weeks, or your money back.
With a 98% success rate, we stand by our promise.
If you follow the program, show your work, and let us know when you get stuck, in 3 weeks, you will be able to access, experience and radiate nature-infused, invigorating calm every single day.
Regardless of how much time you already spend in nature.
Even if you live in the city.
Even if you work full time.
Even if you're not so good at meditation.
Even if you’re struggling with climate grief.
Even when you have to stay in bed.
Or find yourself in a hospital.
Or in a prison. Of any sort.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I don’t feel calm in 6 weeks?
We are confident in our program's effectiveness. If you follow the program and you don't achieve a calmer state within 6 weeks, we will offer a full refund.
How much time do I need to invest daily?
Just 25 minutes of your day, 5 days per week. The practices are designed to seamlessly integrate into your daily schedule.
What happens after the 6 weeks?
It's up to you!
A few options of continuing education and group support are available to graduates of Calm by Nature - Practice Foundations.
Nature is our teacher.
I'm happy to be your guide.
I was raised in Venezuela by the gentle laps of the Caribbean, watching the turquoise water reflected on the bellies of the pelicans. Although, I lived in an apartment in the busy city of Caracas, I also felt at home in the small rainforest that was our backyard – one which we shared with gentle sloths and mysterious iguanas.
When my daughter was born in San Francisco, I developed a heightened sensitivity to the noise and overwhelm around me – and now around her too. I refused to accept that profound inner peace was to become merely a retreat indulgence. That's when I embarked on a journey to awaken my everyday nature-infused, inherent calm.
Inspired by a tiny colibrí, and informed by years of study with the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, many opportunities to be in community with Indigenous wisdom keepers, and my experience as a documentary filmmaker, I eventually developed Calm by Nature, a reliable, soul-satisfying method for accessing our peaceful, grounded presence in collaboration with the Earth.
Since then, I've had the pleasure of guiding all sorts of Earth Lovers – farmers, filmmakers, sustainability professors, outdoor educators, botanical artists, policy makers, healthcare workers, healers, chefs, mamas, women — in accessing their own nature-infused, inherent calm, every single day. I've shared my learnings as a course at Stanford University, for the United Nations, the Dalai Lama Fellows and for a growing online community.
My prayer is that as we awaken our natural calm, we will become greater instruments of resonant beauty and healing – for ourselves, our communities and our Earth.
I look forward to meeting you.
natasha deganello giraudie
Together, building a powerful, beautiful Coalition of Natural Calm.
As you awaken your natural peace, a whole new quality of life will flow through you.
Zilah
I learned to listen with new ears, to soften and love the moment-by-moment mystery and how to move forward toward collective healing.
Jenny
I have a new found sense of peace & gratitude for nature. I feel rejuvenated – sometimes even ecstatic! I have found solace.
Maureen
This program has greatly illuminated & enhanced my life! It is a pure joy to connect in community, especially worldwide!
Anne
As a health care worker, I believe every mental health practitioner would benefit from this course.
Hollie
This community was my winter sustenance – an embodied tending to the everyday sacred in nature.
Chloe
I have more thoughtfulness about how to pass on my reverence for nature to my daughter.
Roxana
I savored, in particular, the poems throughout the recordings & sharing circles. They inspired me to bring in more art into my work.
Sandra
This has been a time to deepen my rooted knowledge that I've always had as a little girl – to remember the joy of being outdoors.
Laura
I came to this practice looking for structure, insight, awareness & community during these difficult times. I found so much more.
DISCLAIMER
The Calm by Nature and Nature Practice programs and mentoring are intended to educate and inspire you on your personal journey toward wellbeing and happiness. They are not intended to replace care best provided by qualified professionals and they are not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Photography by Pete Longworth. Design by Todd Schulte.
